The underground camp has a large space. After everything was cleared, torches have been put in and the light is very bright. There is also a bonfire in the center, and the smoke can penetrate from high places, which is very good.
Zhang Yang first arranged the manpower for night guard rotation, and then made sure that the number of torches and firewood was sufficient, and then allowed the soldiers to have dinner.
After eating, he asked the spearman captain Wu Yuan and eleven other elite soldiers to rest near him.
This is not because he is timid and afraid of death, well, he is not only small, but also afraid of death. He is afraid of any accidents happening at night. Then he can activate the secondary protection immediately. Ordinary soldiers will die if they die, but elites Soldiers cannot die.
Zhang Yang was quite tired at this time, so he quickly fell asleep after making arrangements. Thanks to his B-strength soul, he didn't even have nightmares and slept so soundly.
I don’t know how much time has passed,
"Ah!"
A shrill scream suddenly sounded, awakening Zhang Yang from his sleep. He reacted quickly and turned on the secondary protection immediately, and then went to see what happened
The bonfire was still in the underground space, the torches were still burning, and the soldiers were normal. There was only one more dead person, an ordinary soldier who had just been killed. His eyes widened in horror, and a tree root passed through his back. .
But other than that, nothing happened.
"Did anyone see anything?"
Swallowing his saliva, Zhang Yang asked nervously. He had arranged a total of five night watch groups, with five people in each group. This was already a large number of people. Under the light of the fire, it was enough to see the cave space clearly.
"No, I don't know, Mr. Village Chief, Zhao Shitou just went to pee, but when he turned around, he was stabbed to death by that thing." A soldier on night duty replied with a pale face.
But there is nothing behind that dead soldier.
"Is that a tree root? Let's go and have a few people look at it."
Zhang Yang's heart was beating like a drum, and clips from various ghost movies he had watched flashed through his mind uncontrollably. Damn it, I haven't learned the skills to catch ghosts yet.
Several soldiers walked over boldly, as if there was nothing there except the tree roots that had just grown out of the soil.
A soldier raised his knife to cut off the tree root, but at this moment, there was a crash, the soil splashed, and another tree root suddenly came out, piercing the soldier's neck!
Blood gurgled upwards, and he looked like he was no longer alive.
And this terrifying scene happened under everyone's eyes. It was so frightening. Because it was so sudden, Zhang Yang, who was thinking about various ghost movie scenes, almost screamed in fright.
It was the spearman captain Wu Yuan who yelled to retreat, and the soldiers retreated as if they were waking up from a dream. At this time, they heard crashing, crashing, crashing. In all directions, from the southeast to the northwest, tree roots penetrated the soil and rocks. It came through so hard.
Moreover, these tree roots seemed to be alive, shaking and growing crazily, like countless tentacle monsters.
"Nah, grandma's legs! Fight! Fight! Hack them to death!"
Zhang Yang was very angry and shouted hysterically, what is this
Why did nothing happen when the spider tribe lived and settled here before, but I only lived here for a day, and shit, something happened in just half a day
A world with a fantasy background can be so capricious and bullying, and the setting is like letting a dog eat it!
The battle became intense as soon as it started. The soldiers were extremely brave, but those evil, living tree root monsters were even more ferocious, and their angles were tricky. I drilled, I drilled, I drilled!
No way, Zhang Yang sent elite soldiers to temporarily contain these tree root monsters. Yes, it was temporary, because even if these tree roots were cut off, they could still grow back at a very fast speed. This was bullying. Finally, Zhang Yang went up with a knife and slashed wildly.
Soldiers were soon injured and killed. They fought and retreated, and were forced to gather together. They also had to guard against the tree roots above their heads. Who knows why their vitality is so strong
More and more tree roots poured into the underground space and occupied it step by step. The torches were extinguished and the fires were crushed. In the darkness, only the screams of the soldiers before their death were seen.
In Zhang Yang's secondary protection circle, including him, the 38 big men were almost squished into paper figures, and they couldn't be beaten, especially in this pitch-black environment.
Fortunately, although those tree roots were tricky, they could not break through the secondary protection. They were wandering outside and growing continuously. When Zhang Yang observed with a lighter, he saw countless knotted tree roots forming an airtight layer. The cage completely imprisoned 38 of them.
There is no way out, and those tree roots are still growing and squeezing every gap. This is to compress and isolate all the air. There is no need to break the first-level protective circle by then. There is just no oxygen. These 38 of them will be completely dead.
"I've really seen a ghost. What's the reason? Why are those spiders okay when they live here?"
Zhang Yang was simply desperate. No, he could still maintain the most basic calmness. He knew that this thing couldn't happen without a reason. There must be a reason.
The two spider lords must have some way to drive away and contain these root monsters, but they destroyed this method after they moved in.
"Wait, is it because of the spider's venom?"
When this idea flashed through Zhang Yang's mind like a meteor, he understood it immediately.
Yes, the reason why the spider lords can settle here safely must be because of their venom.
Zhang Yang remembered the first time he saw the spider's lair. The pit was surrounded by a black substance like asphalt within a few hundred meters, and the inside of the nest was also covered with this black substance, covering every corner.
Then within a range of 300 meters, no trees can survive at all. Even 300 meters away, there are a large number of trees that are tangled ferociously. They are caused by venom erosion. At the same time, that is why the spider tribe can resist these tree root monsters. The most important line of defense.
But after Zhang Yang took possession of this place, he asked soldiers to clean up a large area of black asphalt-like material, and also thoroughly cleaned the underground space.
This is tantamount to virtually destroying that line of defense.
So in just a few hours, when he finished his hunting outside and led his soldiers back, he saw the trees that suddenly became full of life. At that time, they had actually begun to attack.
This war, which seems to come out of the blue, is actually not sudden at all.
Zhang Yang is very upset. He didn't think of this until now, and as a result, so many soldiers died. What should he do now? Smear that demonic spider venom on your knives and spears
impossible.
In an area of only twenty square meters, the 38 of them were crowded like sardines, and there was no way to apply the venom. If anyone was poisoned, it would be even worse than the gain.
"Let me go over there."
Thinking quickly, Zhang Yang came up with a way. It was very simple. Instead of smearing it, he wanted to throw all the venom out. Anyway, there was a secondary protection circle. The venom couldn't hurt them, but it should be able to scare away these damn ones. It's a tree root monster.
Squeezing to the edge of the secondary protection circle, Zhang Yang changed his position as much as possible, and then he took out all the remaining 50 units of demonizing venom from the space of the village founding order. There was a lot of this stuff, it was soft and seemed to be loaded with poison. The bag was like a big balloon. He didn't dare to neglect it and threw it out directly.
The next second, Zhang Yang and the others heard a low and strange sound, followed by a rumbling tremor. The ground was shaking, or it could be said to be an earthquake. Countless soil and stones fell down, burying them alive underground.
As for the low and weird sound that continued, it seemed to be painful and angry, but it was of no use.
After a few minutes, it became quiet outside. The owner of the voice seemed to be dead, but the village founding order did not capture anything, and there was no killing information.
But Zhang Yang couldn't wait any longer. If they didn't go out, they would be suffocated to death.
"Dig out, make a passage."
Everyone started digging together like crazy. After ten minutes, they dug out the ground like groundhogs, and then they were all stunned.